Description: *The Conferences Manager is also expected to lead by example and maintain the highest possible standards in their own portfolio of conferences.
*The postholder should work to ensure the research cycle is embedding and utilised across the business.
*Responsible for producing 5 conferences annually and growing revenue YOY (no. may be reviewed)
*Responsible for identifying and developing new conference topics
*Maintain ongoing research and development of new ideas across the portfolio of current events and potential events and links to content planning
*Plan dates to suite the requirements and forecast of the Conferences Team and to ensure healthy leadtime
*Demonstrate seniority by exampling best practice in research and development for other producers and by sharing your research across the business
*Find the very best speakers, associations and organisations through research to incorporate into production and marketing - we aim for the top
*Repurpose conference research into content marketing generation e.g. blogs, infographics, conference summaries, speaker Q&A etc
*All Conference Producers and Conference Operations Executive report directly to the Conferences Manager (currently 2 producers/1 operations exec)
*Responsible for recruitment, initial training and probation of reports
*Responsible for developing Conference Producers into Senior Conference Producers
*Responsible for stretching Senior Conference Producers and helping them develop and produce new conference topics
*Carry out twice yearly performance reviews with all direct reports
*Lead monthly Conference team meetings to focus on current workload and developing potential new topics